Soap article



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' L. S. SAMUEL.

SOAP ARTICLE.

No. 581,920. Patented May 4, 1897.

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LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL, OF NEWVARK, NEIV JERSEY.

SOAP ARTICLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 581,920, dated May 4,1897.

' Application filed May 2'7, 1896. Serial No. 593,199. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LEOPOLD S. SAMUEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Soap Cakes; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to whichit appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, whichform a part of this specification.

This invention relates to certain improvements in that class of soapcakes represented by those shown in my prior patents, Nos. 393,928,549,330, 549,687, and 555,668, the objects of the invention being toprovide a soap cake of the composite or sectional nature described inthe said prior patents, which will be of a more simple construction, toavoid the appearance of external joining means, and yet to provide suchmeans in such a relation as that they will more firmly unite the soapsections, and to secure other advantages and results, some of which maybe referred to hereinafter in connection with the description of theworking parts.

The invention consists in the improved soap cake and in the arrangementsand combinations of parts, all substantially as will be hereinafter setforth, and finally embraced in the clauses of the claim.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, in which like letters ofreference indicate corresponding parts in each of the views, Figure 1 isa plan of the improved soap cake, the same being preferably of a ballshape, although the shape may be Varied at will. Fig. 2 is an insideview of one of the sections. Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the soapcake, taken at line 00; and Fig. 4: is a section showing a concealedband and a variation in construction.

The said soap cake is made in sections a a, one section of which differsin appearance or composition from the other, the difference beingpreferably due to variations in the medici nal ingredients added 'to thesaponaceous matter.

In the preferred construction the sections a comprise hemispheres, andthe same are on their engaging sides hollowed out, as at b, so as toform coinciding interior chambers, in which I prefer to insertkey-blocks c, by means of which the said hemispheres or sections areprevented from turning or otherwise loosely sliding one on another. Thesaid key-blocks 0 may be of wood or other suitable material other thanthe soap itself; but Iprefer to employ a textile fabric at, such as feltor cotton cloth, which is inserted in a waxy or cementitious matter (1,such as paraffin or cerosin. The textile fabric preliminary to being in:serted in the cake is dipped in the waxy or cementitious substance andthe pores thereof are filled, so as to prevent absorption after thefluid wax has been poured into the hollow chamber of the soap, and thefabric is inserted therein.

In joining the sections by means of the keyblock after dipping the clothand filling the pores thereof, as described, I pour the cerosin into onereceptacle of the soap and then insert the textile fabric, prepared asdescribed. The waxy substance of the prepared fabric becomes integralwith the wax poured within the receptacle, so that the fabric when thewax is hardened becomes firmly attached to the first soap section. Ithen fill the receptacle of the second section and bring the twosections together, so that the projecting keyblock with the projectingwaxy textile fabric enters into the fluid wax of the said second soapsections, and when hardened the parts become firm and secure. Thetextile fabric prevents the key-block c from being broken by lateralpressure due to one cake sliding on the other, as will be understood.

To unite the sections more firmly, I form a Very narrow peripheralgroove 6 around the cake in a plane at right angles to the plane of thejoint between the sections, and into said grooves I insert a continuousrubber band f. The said rubber band prevents withdrawal of one sectionfrom the other. 1 then close the said joint by dampening the soap andfilling or closing the groove over the rubber band with saponaceousmatter, and the cake presents a smooth and unbroken surface, asindicated in Figs. 1 and 4C. The band is thus concealed from viewwithout employing an exterior wrapper.

The meeting surfaces of the sections may be provided with receptacles gfor medicaments, such as I have heretofore described in my formerpatents, or such-surfaces may be devoid of such receptacles.

The key-block may be, as before intimated, of other material than wax,and in this event it may be seated within suitable recesses within thesoap sections, so as to break the joint formed between said sections. Inthis latter case I may dispense with the use of cerosin or other Waxysubstance.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is 1. Theimproved soap cake, comprising sections of saponaceous matter, withgrooves eX- tending around the outside thereof in which a band isarranged and holds said sections together, the said grooves being filledin over said band with saponaceous matter, covering said band andconcealing it from view, substantially as set forth.

2; The improved soap cake comprising a plurality of saponaceous sectionsand a band holding said sections together, said band be ing embeddedwithin said soap sections beneath the exposed surface thereof,substantially as set forth.

3. The improved soap cake, comprising differently-colored saponaceoussections and an elastic band joining said sections, said band beingembedded within the sapon aceous body of the soap cake beneath theexposed surface thereof and concealed from view and from contact withthe band in the earlier washing operations and permitting an easyremoval after the overlying saponaceous matter is worn therefrom,substantially as set forth.

4. The combination with the saponaceous sections and means disposedaround the periphery of the sections for holding said sections againstwithdrawal of a key substance arranged within the body of the soap,consisting of a textile fabric and a waxy substance, said parts beingcombined, substantially as set forth.

5. The combination with the soap sections each having a chamber orrecess formed therein, the said chambers having a key-block, distinctfrom the body of said soap, extending across the joint formed betweensaid sections, into each of the said chambers, and inclosed by saidsaponaceous sections, and holding said sections together, said partsbein g combined, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination with a sectional soap cake, the sections of which areprovided with central recesses, of a key-block distinct from the body ofsaponaceous matter, arranged in each of said. central recesses andbreaking the joint formed between said sections and embodyin g ahardened waxy or cementitio us material holding said sections in rigidrelation, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this25th day of May, 1896.

LEOPOLD s. SAMUEL.

Witnesses:

CHARLES II. P LL, O. B. PITNEY.

